<scp> <i>ANK1</i> </scp> and <scp> <i>EPB41</i> </scp> Variants and The Risk of Steroid‐Induced Osteonecrosis

These findings suggest that the rare variants in ANK1 and EPB41 are novel SONFH disease risk factors which compromise erythrocyte membrane integrity, exacerbating microcirculatory damage in the presence of glucocorticoid as a second hit.